Italian (Tales of Mystery and the Supernatural)
Radcliff, Ann
With an Introduction by Kathryn White. `He saw her wounded, and bleeding to death; saw her ashy countenance, and her wasting turned piteously on himself, as if imploring him to save her from the fate that was dragging her to the ` Ann Radcliffe, author of The Romance of the Forest and The Mysteries of Udolpho, is the high priestess of the gothic novel. In The Italian, first published in 1797, she creates a chilling, atmospheric concoction of thwarted lovers, ruined abbeys, imprisonment and dark passages, with an undercurrent of seething sexuality and presents us with a cunning villain in the sinister monk Schedoni. A contemporary review commented on, `Radcliffe`s uncommon talent for exhibiting, with picturesque touches of genius, the...
ISBN: 978-1-84022-668-3
Издательство:
Wordsworth Editions Ltd.
Дата выхода: июль 2011
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